They are openSuSE Build Service (OBS) repositories and are provided by
various
individuals and groups, within or without novell, subject to novell
requirements, for the benefit of the openSuSE community.

A new openSuSE release will generally be provided every 6-10 months.
Novell
can be credited for putting flexibility into the release schedule, as needed,
if the developers determine additional time is needed to insure a release is
ready. Well done.

File bug reports against packages in the distribution and update
repositories
and they will either be fixed, deferred to the next release or closed depending
on the severity and security implications posed.

Avoid filing bugs with the openSuSE bugzilla at bugzilla.novell.com for
packages in the http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ unless it poses a
dire risk of nuclear war, post those problems to the list and then shut-up and
don't complain. Otherwise some members of the list will quickly belittle you
and attack you for not knowing that you shouldn't file bug reports with
openSuSE against the openSuSE packages in thehttp://download.opensuse.org/repositories/.

Got it? Clear as mud right? But all in all it works quite well. This
isn't an
official openSuSE position, just my understanding from experience with the list
and the openSuSE bugzilla.

Tank you very much for that broad explanation David, it helped me a lot.

Also Michal Marek explained on the Build Service list, that I could use
https://build.opensuse.org/ to check the organization of the projects,
the build status of individual packages, and so forth.

Have a nice day
Sylvester Lykkehus
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